Hedonism

Read a bit about hedonism today and it seems to me as the perfect and final philosophy...("seems" because I still need to go through critiques). But this first impression is good enough for me to read and learn more about the same.


Wikipedia has a good article on hedonism (click here). It has gives an overview of thoughts of the different.

Here is the link to the manifesto of hedonist international (click here). Dunno if this is the 'perfect' form of hedonism, but for me it is. Everything put in a lucid form.

Losers

The other day Sachin went to Bangalore. His friends there had jotted points that define a 'loser'. I found them quite interesting and so wish to record them here along with some of my own.

1) Once a loser, always a loser
2) A friend of a loser is a loser
3) Guys who have a separate mail-address-book entry for female contacts
4) Those who are all but not cool, and pretend to be what they are not
5) Those who have fake social networking accounts to peep into others' profiles
6) Those who make an excessive of the following words because it makes them feel that they are cool :- Fuck, Cool, Buddy
7) The king of losers is the 'best-friend' of a girl and the emperor of losers is the 'best-friend' of a gang of girls

Favourite Movies

MOVIES

• Feel Good Movies

1. When Harry Met Sally
2. Love Actually
3. Pretty Woman
   

• Movies that Inspire

1. The Bucket List
2. Children of Heaven (Bacheha-Ye-aseman)
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. Cinderella Man
5. Miracle
   

• Good Ones

1. Cast Away
2. The Terminal
3. Forrest Gump
4. Dor
5. Iqbal
6. No Man's Land
7. A Christmas Story
8. Lord of the Rings Trilogy

• Sci-Fi

1. Matix Trilogy
2. Jurassic Park (1,2,3)

• Weird

1. The Tin Drum
2. Momento
3. Saw
   

Fact File

10 random facts

1. I find it difficult to pronounce my first name (and so do other people). So, I usually spell out my first name or pronounce it as 'Aneesh' to make life easier for all
2. I can speak, read and write English and Hindi; speak terrible Malayalam; read Sanskrit and make little sense; read arabic and make zero sense
3. If I am too sweaty or feel dirty, I need necessarily take a bath (even if the water is cold)
4. I don't take milk, tea, shakes or anything that reminds me of milk (exceptions: milk cakes, ice-creams)
5. Am a huge fan of WWE and also like watching Tom & Jerry. I have made two short films, one of which won the 'best movie' in a competition at the University level
6. The only times I keep my mouth shut are when am in the company of learned people or equally stupid people
7. I drive very responsibly, and prefer to do so for my own safety and those of others.
8. I have been involved in some volunteer work, though its a lot less than I would like to do
9. Though I suck at it, I love swimming. Have been saved from drowning once.
10. Like clicking people and places randomly
    

Nine wishes

1. Good health for myself, my loved ones and all in general
2. Have real sweet dreams every time I sleep
3. Have easy access to good food, nice place to stay and medical care
4. More religious tolerance, less strives and zero violence globally
   
5. Have less work on job, and still get better paid
6. Get hold of someone who can pay my bills
7. Would like to visit the deep jungles of Africa and capture the whole experience on film
8. Have some really nice chicks around drooling all over me
9. Find someone who can help me fulfill the above eight

Eight things I love

1. food cooked by my mother
2. staying in touch with closed ones
3. spending time at our home in Kerala
4. the smell of earth when its the season's first rain
5. observing people
6. reading books and watching movies
7. cooking (right now am in the learner's stage)
8. taking a hot shower

Seven things I despise

1. Racist comments and religious intolerance and xenophobia
2. Hypocrites and people who pretend that they are God incarnated but are actually dorks
3. Selfishness
4. People who smell bad, and don't carry kerchiefs to wipe their noses.
5. Not switching of the electric appliances when not in use and Wasting water
6. Throwing trash on road.
7. Scribbling names or messages on historical monuments, trains and lack of respect for public property

Six places (Indian states) I have been associated with

1. I was born in Jharkand (earlier a part of Bihar)
2. I have a Madhya Pradesh Domicile (did most of my schooling here)
3. My Passport was issued in Gujarat (pursued my under-graduation here)
4. My Driving License was issued in Andhra Pradesh (the places where I took my first job)
5. My parents hail from Kerala (so technically I am also a Keralite)
6. My parents right now live in Tamil Nadu, so that's where I spend my vacations.

Five things I would like to do

1. Get into documentary film making
2. Go on world tour, preferably the country-sides
3. Get involved in teaching
4. Read a lot lot more than I currently do and watch real good movies
5. Kick some deserving royal asses

Four of my favorite time-pass activities

1. Sleeping
2. Talking to friends
3. Watching National Geographic
4. Reading (books,articles on Wikipedia)

Three of my favorite movies

1. Love Actually
2. Matrix
3. When Harry Met Sally

Two of my favorite actors/actresses

1. Meg Ryan
2. Tom Hanks

One thing I know sure of myself

1. am hopelessly lazy

Life ??

Life is nothing but an aberration.

One fine day (or night ??), God got bored of himself. 'He' (may be 'She'..but lets not get into a sex-gender argument) had nothing to do and he was bored 'playing' with himself :P. So, he decided to play another game.

He took of matter from his body, and created the universe. Then he took some more matter from his body and created life-forms. Very intelligently, he wiped off the memory of all he created (or rather redesigned). So, none of the life-forms and none of the non-living know that they themselves are God as they are a part of the native.

So, people are born, they grow, they fuck, they fight, they fuck, and then they fucking die irrespective of their fucking intelligence or fucking wealth or both. And all this time their 'original' self referred to as 'God' is busy watching and enjoying the whole game.

Hence, the analogy:

1) There is no 'God', but 'me'
2) There is no 'me', but 'God'
3) I am 'God' and 'God' is 'me' (or there is no 'God' and no 'me')

So, basically 'I' am the creator, I am the created. I, the creator, is watching those naive-created act on the stage called world. So, I am the spectator and I am the spectated.

So, next time you see a beggar, dont pity; for self-pity is not good. Next time you envy someone, remember you are envying yourself. Nothign and Everthing are part of the same entity.

Life is an aberration, because it doesn't exist at the first place. Its all 'maya'.

Search Terms

Strangers (and possibly some known people) stumble upon my blog via Google. The search terms that led them here are:

• banana county
  
• Marital Swaps
  
• What is the difference between men and puppies?
• the mystery behind number 3
  
• mystery of number 0
• Pune rocks
• funny im status
• wife swap in malaysia
• banana county, public
  

Bhongir Trekking

This Sunday (28th Oct, two zero zero seven) my team at Pramati went to its maiden outing to Bhongir Fort (now in its rumbles). The whole structure was built on one big rock and its about half a kilometer from the ground level. It would require one to walk about one to one point five kms to reach the summit - enough to cause a few of the team members chase their breath (notably Riyaz and Neha).


Vivek wore many a caps that day :

• Tour Operator : he hatched the plan
• Travel Agent : made all the arrangements including car, cookies, biscuits, chocolates, banana and lots of bottled dihydrogen monoxide in liquid state....
• Alarm Clock : sent an email on Friday, an SMS on Saturday, another SMS on Sunday morning followed by a call at 4 AM.
• Team Manager : Got Neha to sacrifice her long Sunday naps, Dawood to get moving despite his weekend laziness, Rohit to postpone to his Tirupati plans and Rizzy-scrapper to abandon his Chennai tour.
  
• Philanthropist : Paid all the bills (well, as of now he hasn't asked for the same)

Rohit brought in three one litre bottles of Pulpy Orange - the source of Vitamin C that enabled everyone to climb the ascent, and apples - on demand by Neha.

The trip started with Vivek, Rohit , Neha and myself sharing the car, while Dawood had a harrowing time riding pillion to Rizzy-the scrapper. No sooner did we cross the city limits, Rizzy-the scrapper complained of back ache and got Rohit drive his not-so-comfortable two-wheeled machine that resembles a motor-powered bike.





Rizzy-the scrapper wearing Rohit's jacket. Dawood is riding pillion









Rohit is wearing Rizzy-the scrapper's helmet. Dawood still riding pillion




We reached the place, and it took us (minus Neha) about 4-5 halts to reach the top (Neha required just a couple of million more). Overall, it was a great fun experience.





the ascent

team web122 - on the top

the descent
(Rizzy-the scrapper is exhausted, out of breath but is pretending to loosen his non-existent muscles)




For the return journey, Rohit refused to drive Rizzy-the scrapper's bike citing uncomfortable design of the machine as a reason. Rizzy-the scrapper was back on his bike and Dawood again riding pillion. Neha and myself had a comfortable journey at the car backseat.

We (myself and Vivek) shot some wonderful photographs. Rohit did contribute his lot too but Vivek labelled them as 'not of quality'.

Some random clicks:






Vivek busy fine-tuning his rickety gadget

(person to be blamed for not scheduling the trek on a weekday :D)

bonsai on the rocks

what is this guy upto ?

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